The Robert Doles family came from Chilacotha, Ohio, by covered wagon
  and first settled by Elm Hills. They soon found a better place to live,
  so they moved west of where the city of Medicine Lodge now stands. (The
  site of the Doles School).
     There wre seven children in Robert's family. He had four sisters and
  two brothers. Robert's father died of tuberculosis, when all the children
  were small. His mother reared the children alone from then on.
     One of the best remembered stories of Robert's early childhood, was
  the Indian story. Robert's mother saw Indians coming toward the house
  so she and the children hid in the cornfield. She made the children lay
  down and threatened them if they made a sound. They all thought the house
  would be burned to the ground when the Indians had gone, but they took
  only what provisions they needed and went on.
     As a young boy, Robert heard they were going to hang bank robbers east
  of town, so he and another boy hid back in some trees and watched the
  "hangin".
     Robert was a cowboy by trade. He drove cattle for many years, along
  the Chisolm Trail. When he was older he stopped "cow punchin" and went
  west. He met Althea Schubert in Monument, Colorado. They were married
  and had six children before they returned to Kansas. The children were
  Alvin, Lester, Elizabeth Lucinda, Bonnie, Dorothy (died as an infant),
  and Bertha.
     When the family moved back to Kansas, the girls came by train and
  the boys by covered wagon. A few years later, the family moved back
  to Colorado, because of Mr. Doles' health, Elizabeth, however, stayed
  in Medicine Lodge to marry Orville Smith. They were married September 30,
  1928, in Kiowa, Kansas at the parsonage of the Congregation Church. They
  lived in Kiowa for a short time and then moved back to Medicine Lodge,
  where Orville was employed by Charlie Knowles and Frank DeGeer.
     They had one son, Herbert Dale (Pete) Smith. They moved to Cherokee,
  Oklahoma, in May of 1941. Orville owned the Chevrolet dealership in
  Cherokee.
     Pete met and married Dorothy Huges, and they had three children;
  Cynthia, Michael, and LIsa. Pete farmed andworked at the post office in
  Cherokee.
     Cynthia became of teacher of English and speech. When she came to
  Medicine Lodge to teach and coach plays, she met and married Scott
  MacGregor, who is employed by Barber County Savings and loan. They make 
  their home in Medicine Lodge.
     Mike moved to Helena, where he is a counselor at Helena Training
  School. He is a talented drummer and plays in music groups in the area.
     Lisa attends Cherokee grade school, where she is active in sports
  and school activities.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 158